Therapy that is curious, collaborative, and quietly transformative.
I'm Gray Janove (she/her), LICSW — a Massachusetts-licensed psychotherapist offering depth-oriented care for adults and couples doing meaningful inner work.
Originally from New York City, I've called Western Massachusetts home for more than a decade. I'm a mother of two, and my experiences of parenting, partnership, and family life deeply inform the way I show up in this work: with humility, curiosity, compassion, and an understanding that people are often carrying far more than what is visible on the surface.
I identify as white, Jewish, and queer, and I strive to create a therapeutic space that is affirming, thoughtful, and attuned to the ways identity, culture, family history, and systems shape our inner lives and relationships. I believe therapy works best when people feel safe enough to bring their full complexity into the room without fear of judgment or simplification.
Before becoming a therapist, I trained and worked as a birth doula, an experience that continues to profoundly shape my clinical perspective. Supporting people through pregnancy, birth, loss, transition, uncertainty, and profound bodily and emotional change taught me how vulnerable and transformative these experiences can be. I bring both professional and lived understanding to work with clients navigating fertility challenges, miscarriage, pregnancy, postpartum experiences, parenting, and the evolving identities that often accompany these transitions.
My work begins with the belief that you are not broken — that the patterns, fears, and protections you've developed once helped you survive something real. Therapy, at its best, is a slow and respectful process of getting to know those parts of yourself with curiosity and warmth, until they no longer need to run the show.
I trained as a clinical social worker at Smith College School for Social Work and have spent years working with adults and couples through anxiety, complex trauma, grief, burnout, ADHD, life transitions, and the quieter forms of stuckness that don't always have a name. I draw primarily from Internal Family Systems (IFS), relational and psychodynamic approaches, and somatic and trauma-informed frameworks — all in service of a deeply collaborative, evidence-based practice.
Many of my clients come to therapy already insightful and high-functioning. They've often done the reading, sat with the journals, even tried therapy before — and still find themselves circling familiar pain. Together we go a layer deeper: not just managing symptoms, but understanding the system they emerge from.
Pacing and consent at the heart of every session.
Every part of you is welcome — even the difficult ones.
You are the expert on your life; I bring the framework.
An affirming space for LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and neurodivergent clients.